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Mark ole man have you had your doctor to a doppler on your neck veins and arteries for blockages? I had it does last summer for doing the same thing that you are going through and found a mild blockage and put on asprin 81mg a day. Have you had your stress test done? Hope you find out your causes.

I sometimes get dizzy, but it's only a lightly dizzy feeling and very fleeting -- more like a sensation, and I just blame either Truvada or Neurontin. Nor does it happen very often. However, I've never had it where I fell down, much less on my back. Is that the only time you've actually fallen, Mark?

Dizziness to that degree I would assume could have many causes, much of which could be non-HIV related, as you well know.

MarkI know its distressing to have something happen and not know why. The big question is: is this a sign of worse to come. Is it something you should have checked out. I would certainly ask my doctor to check it out.I can think of several possible issues:1. blood pressure. Are you on blood pressure medication?2. sugar levels ( diabetes...hypoglycemia ...etc)3. inner ear issues

Mark, this happens to me a lot, I get dizzy, and it feels like I'm going to fall over, this happens in the AMwhen after I take all my medications, it can also happen when I get up or stand up too fast, maybe this is due to all of them dissolving into my bloodstream, or maybe it could be my Isentress or my Quinapril/Tircor, (as this is a side-effect of these meds) my doctor really doesn't feel it's anything serious, as I've been on these drugs for almost 3 yrs. now, but wanted to know if it got any worse so, your not alone in this, I'm sure others will chime-in that have this problemtoo

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Comon Mark, do the drug side effects first. My Terozosin causes me to get dizzy and most of the time, I catch myslef before hitting the ground. However, I am totally suprised at the number of drugs we take that can cause very severe dizziness.

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Cant really offer much in the way of help Mark but I hope you figure it all out .

I take my Atripla at night and have to be careful doing the late night pee trek because I feel so unsteady . It also amazes me how you can take meds without problems for a long time only to develop side effects later . I had to change the time of day I took my thyroid meds not long ago because of this .

Mark , I have had these spells but fortunately have not actually fallen... my Dr said what most of the guys have said. combo of various meds cause dizziness... I also had a spell of low blood pressure ( 100/ 80..... that seemed to exaggerate these spells... the blood pressure thing wasn't ever clearly explained and went back to normal 120/80 in a few weeks... watch for that kind of blip...get a BP pressure monitor...I have a semi /auto one. wrap around your arm it inflates/ deflates and reads out on a digital display

Not much to add, but I do hope that you bring this up with your doctor, especially since the frequency of these dizzy spells, seems to be happening more often.

I occasionally get only slightly dizzy, but never to the point, where it knocks me on my back, or that I stumble.

My problem seems to be these ocular migraine's that I get periodically. When I get these episodes, I have to lay down for a couple minutes, and shut my eyes, as my vision becomes very unclear. The vision gets wavy, and it's difficult to make things out. I've had these episodes when I'm driving, and had to pull over.

I checked and you all are absolutely right. Both the Isentress and Truvada have warning labels attached saying they may cause dizziness.

I didn't think of it because, for some reason, I expected the dizziness to be more immediate if it were going to happen. It doesn't seem to have a time frame and I don't remember it starting immediately after I started these meds.

Interesting. I will follow up with my doctor in the next week. He will be back Monday.

As Nick mentioned, I also did have the dizziness from low blood pressure a few years back. During AMG in Montreal, poor Jan was concerned because I became very unsteady a couple of times.

When I returned, I had the doctor check my blood pressure. It was 80 over 50. He was not pleased. He made me eat salty foods and, at the time, told me I needed to gain weight.

That isn't a problem today. I think I will get one of those home blood pressure cuffs just to have on hand. I finally broke down a few years ago and bought a digital thermometer, so the blood pressure cuff will make a nice addition to my medical arsenal.

The weird part of the dizziness I experience now is sometimes I don't realize how dizzy I am. I can feel myself start to fall, but sometimes I can't seem to stop myself in time. That is what happened in Mexico City and a couple of times since.

Sunday night, I was at a gathering and, as I started to step down from a bridge into a cleared area, my right foot went forward but I started falling backward. Luckily, someone caught me.

Anyway, thanks to people pointing out the issue with the meds, I have something to arm myself with when I go see the doctor.

There may be nothing to be done, except for me to be more careful and to remember to lean forward more often..

Mark, when I've gotten dizzy (and I'll emphasis again for your benefit that it's very slight compared with what you've described) it's almost 24 hours after my Truvada dose, assuming that's what is causing it. My bottles of Isentress are not labeled as you described.

I too have blood pressure issues, though mine go to the high side. However, I've been on bp medication now for five years so it's always controlled, and thus can't imagine my slight dizziness is related to that, but I guess it's possible.

So are you telling us that you had blood pressure issues previously but were never put on any medication for this? The bottom line is that you've actually fallen so I'm glad you're going to talk to your doctor. Just don't wait six months.

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Look you pathetic government freeloader, stop trying to milk the US taxpayer for your sexual pleasure. You're lucky that you get viagra and lipo face injections covered, now you want your fisting juice paid for.

Viagra is covered by Health Ins. really since when? the last time I got 100MG-bottle of 60 of that stuff was 2006, and shortly after this, it WAS NOT covered anymore.......that's news to me I cannot even take it anymore due to BP-issues and being on Tricor and Quinapril, I wish my old Doctor would have told me thisit would have saved me a trip to the ER a couple of yrs ago...That 100MG Viagra I took almost KILLED ME

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I thought Viagra was covered by Medicare. Not that I'd know as Miss P doesn't not ever need synthetic erector sets for her equipment.

I'm not on Medicare Part D, only A&B and almost all of that is used for ADAP & Ryan White, at least mine isThe only erector set I ever had was when I was a kid, oh and, I don't do synthetics, I'd rather smoke some good herb, if I can't get a chubby the natural way, I might as well become a Celibate Monk instead

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I had that once and no-one could work out why. I had a fall after I stumbled sideways from a head rush so my doctor decided to probe my ears as the cause of my balance problems. He found a single hair in my left ear (from a haircut I had a few weeks back) and it was lodged deep in my ear. I had it removed and the dizziness stopped. Sounds dumb that a simple thing caused all that